embattled whistleblower julian assange gives an unprecedented speech to the un general assembly. his words directly to the high level gathering from his london ecuadorian embassy hideout. and syria grabs a wider attention at the u.n. as moscow some of its foreign partners who push for regime change instead of condemning the escalation of terror attacks. and spain's richest and most prosperous region of catalonia strives for independence disintegrating economy and

government accused of being aloof leaves the spaniards in despair. it is a pleasure to have you with us here on r.t. . and live in moscow welcome to the program the world's top whistleblower julian found a way to make his own address to the u.n. general assembly from his shelter in the ecuadorian embassy in london he used a video link provided by r.t. to speak to the world leaders gathered in new york. has the details of this unprecedented stalemate. it's the story of this the mounted to be heard incessantly r.t. have refused to ignore it having followed every detail of julian a scientist from the very beginning well last night the u.n.

listened as the wiki leaks founder delivered his impassioned appeal to see the un to the people who were gathered there calling on the u.s. to end its persecution of wiki leaks and of the man himself now he spoke via satellite link from the ecuadorian embassy in london where he's been for more than three months now as he fights his extradition he just the u.n. assembly in the great gathered there are t. were exclusively in the embassy behind the scenes and exclusively broadcasting as julian assange has delivered his message to the world leaders who are gathered there you spoke for about fifteen minutes and the main point that he made was the criticism of the u.s. and of president obama criticizing them for defending freedom of speech of being very outspoken about defending freedom of speech but then converse lipase keating whistle blows and people he try and tell the cheese and he spoke certainly of his facile wiki leaks possibile so the wider implications of the route that the u.s.

is now taking ministration is in trying to recruit. a national regime of secrecy a national regime. and the regime where you need government employee reviewing sensitive information to a media organization can be sentenced to death life imprisonment or is now everything us the classified documents is being found that julian the sons and wiki leaks are officially enemies of the state and that anyone who works with them could be potentially persecuted by now he spoke not only of his own ongoing battle but also of the wider implications for whistle blows if the u.s. continues along this course. sara for porting right there well as mentioned we were exclusively broadcasting a songes address live or you can watch at the full version on our website dot com.

i want you to know you americans or julian assange breakthrough message exclusively on our t.v. dot com. now songes video me the video appearance aside that is it's certainly syria that dominated the u.n. meeting after the country's capital was rocked by two terror attacks in just two days carried out by rebels and but this was largely ignored by international allies of the opposition who only stepped up their calls for regime change russia says that kind of behavior only encourages rebel terrorism as ati's marina portnoy are now reports. his foreign minister did speak to the fifteen members of the security council reiterating russia's position on the crisis in syria opposition that says the international community should be sticking to the six point peace plan that was laid out by former joint special envoy kofi annan as well as sticking to the communique that was signed in geneva and now russia's foreign minister sergei

lavrov said that this crisis can only be settled through negotiation and compromise . an argument that was also made by china and brazil most recently said that military intervention could not serve to solve this problem only dialogue and diplomacy foreign minister lavrov said that russia's diplomatic principles are the following letting countries decide its destiny independently and not interfering in domestic affairs the foreign minister also said that it's quite concerning that western countries who are supporting the syrian opposition are increasingly turning the other way when violence and bloodshed is being perpetrated by rebels he said that this is a very dangerous pattern that is taking place and they could set a very bad precedent that would ultimately justify terrorism. new joke of the latest attacks in syria on deceiving any jew response from the u.n.

security council because some of the western nations prefer to step back saying that in this case can be justified by people's desperation with the regime so it should position is horrifying and then she leads to justifying terror attacks over the world the u.s. president barack obama addressed the u.n. general assembly calling for an end to the government of bashar al assad syria's current president in addition to america's position the leaders of britain and france also took to the podium addressing the international body and echoing the sentiments made by their american counterpart so there you have it it was just the most recent conversation taking place in the security council once again on syria crisis that has been developing for more than eighteen months and still a huge division among the international community. and the iranian leader also weighed in warning against foreign military involvement in syria after he addressed

the world leaders at the general assembly. criticized western policies while calling for a new world order and fresh thinking the u.s. and israel in turn boy called reduced speech with the canadian delegations walking out of the chamber in protest. from the national iranian american council believes such reactions are made in poor taste. the walkout that normally happens or in this case the fact that the u.s. and israeli missions did not even come to the speech i think is mostly political theater i don't think that this means anything this is about as sharp rebuke as can be delivered during these speeches but at the end of the day it's meaningless it's i think silliness that bears no mark on the reality of how these situations need to be resolved i think they do though speak to political. you know the political risk of appearing to be willing to listen engage to. you

know foreign countries that we disagree with what you know is he just ahead for you in the program we look at whether the relationship between the u.s. and israel could be on rocky ground approx they've been there for a while they seem to be growing wider washington growing tired of israel's insistent calls for a strike on iran over its atomic plans. and police deeply affected by austerity find ways to resist job and funding telling you how they're letting the government know about the dangers of having less on the big. a tanking economy rampant unemployment and a foul public mood may not be the worst of spain's troubles catalonia it's richest and most prosperous region wants out its leader saying if you win snap elections next month he'll force through a referendum on independence. looks at what the rush is all about.

the regional elections being held in catalonia will be seen as a de facto referendum on independence from madrid and from essential lies government and that's largely down to who's running on the ballot paper we have present our soul mass regional head he's been calling for greater independence he proved popular on the day of voting for them that could really reflect on how popular the issue of independence is has always been the simmering sentiment when it comes to this national debate between highlighted somewhat given the current economic conditions and economic plight in spain catalonians feel that they've been hard done so that they give more to madrid in terms of the budget about twelve billion euros more on an annual basis ever received back also catalonia as a regional store to contribute about twenty percent of spain's annual g.d.p. is still part of what was owed deficit struggling to reduce that deficit in

catalonia about forty billion euros but here they say they've made deeper and tougher cuts than anywhere else in spain this issue actually earlier this month or so about a million he thought on to the streets in barcelona as a call for independence away from madrid that comes at a very tough time for spain as a whole particularly for the government of prime minister rudd hordes as one m.p.'s dubbed it is a crisis on top of a crisis as they're facing their own problems of deficit reduction and people coming out to the streets in their tens of thousands to protest against how the government is handling austerity measures we've just seen this week protests turned violent the occupy congress movement which started peacefully aim to get a message of and just stared through to him peace and ended in violence of police pushing back the protesters were being hit by battens having a bullets fired in their direction and it's also about sixty people were injured in

proceedings about thirty people. detained that's a worrying sign as these demonstrations turn more violent if the as they continue. and brushing aside accusations of greed. tenor a spokesperson for the cattle and solidarity and independence party he says is not all about money but rather about the issue of self-determination. all right i'm going to go and people have decided that we have no place and no role. out of our own i mean it's not a matter of being selfish you know what are you going to question everything we're going to. show you the only way to get all through us. creates society as a society that takes these oh i'm going to show you how do you live in a country can save you know you know good people and we could. come out here we have got a lot of people besides the very life that we're going to live and the concrete not

already in the streets but probably not the fault of spanish officials on the spot is going to who are going to who are anything like that because we don't put people who don't remember if they are you can catch up on the clashes in madrid over the past two days i find the full video. there we've quanah called two days of the mass rallies made up of tens of thousands of people have a video and opinions on the ensuing violence between demonstrators and police clashes some critics say may have been engineered by your fellow he's themselves all that and much more to talk. it sounds like a dragon crashing through the forest but it is in fact technology this is trees and would you believe it this machine can fall and strip hundreds of them each day get

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stuck totty dot com. thank you for joining us here on r.t. today on rover sushi iran's alleged nuclear threat has seen the u.s. and israel singing from the same hymn book for some time but it's now becoming a bone of contention with washington appearing to be tired of israel's cost and calls for a preemptive strike on terror on the story now to watch he's gonna check out. the crack between the white house and the stray leadership is starting to show house benjamin netanyahu is pushing washington to draw a red line over iran a line beyond which lies war but president obama is not banding so let me be clear america wants to resolve this issue through diplomacy and we believe that there is still time and space to do so even though the obama administration's stated policy is not to let iran have

a nuclear weapon for benjamin netanyahu that's not enough if you're determined to prevent iran from getting nuclear weapons it means you'll act before they get nuclear weapons acting before could mean attacking tomorrow even though according to a u.s. intelligence assessment iranian leaders haven't even decided on whether to build the bomb or not america's top military officials made it clear at tacking the rand would be a bad idea should israel decide to go it alone the head of the u.s. army said quote i don't want to be complicit and of quote play assume they can set iran back a couple of years and then go back and do it again and again that's just idiotic because once you start using force everything changes colonel lawrence wilkerson has joined a host of other former and serving government officials who put forward an expert analysis paper on what military action against iran would entail the paper states we believe that a u.s. attack on iran would increase ariens motivation to build

a bomb. it would take iran a year or more to build a military grade weapon once the decision was made to do so at least two years or more would be required to create a nuclear warhead that is reliably deliverable die a missile as this really pushes ahead with war talk and red lines the obama administration is trying to relieve the pressure any pressure that i feel is simply to do what's right for the american people and i am going to block out any noise that's out there when the president referred to israeli war rhetoric as noise many asked whether the relations between the white house and television have hit a new low all you have to do in this town is say the word israel and everyone is supposed to shrink away everyone supposed to leave the argument because if israel's security is in peril then you are an anti-semite or worse if you say i'm opposite opinion americans have made it clear they don't have the stomach for another war in the middle east especially

a war based on some phony red blinds president obama knows that benjamin netanyahu probably knows that too hence the question is the. really serious one pushing the us to the brink of what would be a devastating war or is it some kind of a good cop bad cop diplomatic game that the u.s. and israel are playing whatever it is the escalating war talk is drowning out the hopes of diplomacy in washington i'm going to check on. now as barack obama prepares for his presidential election run in his republican rival reveals his personal financial history just a few minutes and i'll tell you we've got a surprising details of mitt romney's overseas investments where. the public can be buying into his enemies. for another deep cuts to public services in the u.k. have not spent the country's law enforcement hundreds of police jobs have already been slashed with thousands more under threat but officers are not taking kindly to

the proposed changes and. as more and how they are fighting back. they're faced with having to make deep budget cuts and to add insult to injury report to be called perhaps by a senior member of the government now police say in the west midlands have decided to fight back in a couple of weeks the conservative party conference comes to. police federation's for the three regions surrounding the city are preparing their very own. government ministers paying a visit they say they're going to buy up as many billboards as they can in the city center in order to put this anti government advertisement up by the time the tories start their meeting police say they want the public to know that they can't guarantee a good service because of the budget cuts being insisted upon across the whole of england and wales the picture a similar six thousand eight hundred frontline police jobs have gone since the two

thousand and ten general election in order to free up more money for the treasury which is in desperate need of cash the government to do change the nature of. recognition currently. twenty percent of the budget. within which ultimately the police federation's latest campaign here in birmingham is a warning that even if the deep cuts made by the british government save the money it could come at the cost of public safety. reporting that well i don't have to log on to our website for the videos any of the stories also you may have missed what we have for you this hour. before being. trip to europe. points.

have been awarded. for the head. police are. part of five twenty pm here in moscow shortly is katie with the business for now though in georgia four more people have been arrested in connection to prisoner abuse accusations that rocked the country ahead of parliamentary elections and one of the detained is head of jail a sign that the scandal is spreading across the country in addition to videos of inmate torture is now also wanted by tbilisi the government claims the whistleblower. the alleged abuses videos from the prison have sparked daily

protests in the capital but even the country's clergy recently joining in i was just a few days to go before the vote the scandal may prove crucial for president saakashvili his party. now u.s. presidential candidate mitt romney has raised eyebrows by releasing his two thousand and eleven tax returns after pressure from voters turns out the republican who is very vocal in his animosity towards moscow has large investments into two of russia's biggest corporations while reports from washington. republican presidential nominee mitt romney finally released his much anticipated two thousand and eleven tax returns the three hundred seventy nine page return shows he paid a tax rate of over fourteen percent so there's debate over how that number was calculated his tax return also reveals ties to his cayman island investments and the performance of his goldman sachs funds but perhaps the most important yet overlooked item on his two thousand and eleven tax return is romney's foreign

investments in an unmet romney family trust return shows romney purchased shares in two giant russian companies the invested in russian energy firm gazprom an russian internet firm and x. the largest search engine in the country the records show romney invested over a thousand shares and both countries tax records also show romney sold both shares at a loss last september right before the presidential election season kicked off but what's puzzling is that the presidential hopeful took interest and invested in a country he recently bashed. just to russia this is without question our number one geopolitical foe they fight every cause for the world's worst actors that's right rummy invested in a country he apparently views as america's number one enemy in fact romney's rhetoric on russia is consistently hawkish so if you want to run for the highest office in the united states and that virtually attack a foreign country you may want to keep your investments close to home and

washington liz wall r.t. . that's across a different body but as it is all these could it will be good to see you again the latest that you have all the battle between two russian billionaires in love with us now the reports rory that the so between a and. a lucrative stake in the walls i mean you could be cecille of calls his details or let's get some background on talking about the company resell. he says resold. made back in the ninety's worth twenty percent of the fun of the no child he wants a billion dollar compensation for not to getting the state no risotto makes nine percent of the world our menu which is used in construction and coal making the company is now worth around eight and a half billion dollars part of the hearing was such take place via video link to israel as interpol wants journey on all the charges and he says leaving the country so that's a situation that gets markets were heading to europe as he was going on they are

still getting sort of forwarding the most in two months on wednesday and that so they're rising because of speculation that china will announce new stimulus measures and also before the spanish government says that that budget for twenty fourteen as well was riding on now let's see the euro it is still indeed flat really anticipation of that budget which protesters in madrid want to include a reversal of austerity measures what the ruble is while still managing to gain against the basket of cars that they take out some actors that are here in moscow we've got international gaze which means the markets here are benefiting as well as what is that would put oil gazing into you guys who is helping out the energy majors so we spoke about a court battle on the go between thai kings we're now going to talk about a physical fight the owner of britain's evening standard and independent papers has been charged over the top shop little t v for the talk show billionaire alexander lebedev product magnate so gave all of the damage his face hound and hit the bet

i've called it a preemptive strike as belonged to him saying i still like seeing someone in the face right now the better who writes about fifteen percent of one of the world's most profitable faces five years in prison if convicted. so we've had all punch ups market court battles as we're going on today were we back in fifteen minutes or what do we have next time so you think. just a few minutes or an r.t. will be speaking to. the man in charge of the common european currency control the stay with us. more news today violence is once again flared up the film these are the images the

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